Sunday, March 30, 2014

BirdsEyeViews Publications announces that Patrick Harwood, a communication professor at the College of Charleston, will sign copies of his new book on Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Magnolia Cemetery, located at 70 Cunnington Ave. (See author's interview on WCIV-TV "Lowcountry Live").The 231-page hardcover book is titled, "In the Arms of Angels: Magnolia Cemetery- Charleston's Treasure of History, Mystery and Artistry."

Cover of Harwood's new book

In Harwood's book Magnolia Cemetery, founded in 1850,
receives a comprehensive tribute as one of America’s premier Victorian Era
cemeteries. Chapters address, among other topics, Magnolia’s rich history; artistic, magnificent
monuments; symbolism; spirituality; and landscape design. The pages are filled
with stories about cemetery "residents" (a who’s who of Charleston and Lowcountry history) and color photographs that capture the 19th
century Victorian necropolis' unique style and look.

A book signing is also scheduled for Thursday, April 17 on Cougar Mall at the College of Charleston campus from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Harwood said he spent nearly two years on the book, researching, writing, photographing, and even designing and laying out the work himself, in Adobe InDesign. “In the Arms of Angels” is published under Harwood’s own enterprise, BirdsEyeViews Publications. Printing (in America) was handled by 360 Digital Books located in the Detroit area.

In 2010, Harwood, a former television anchor and news reporter, produced this video about Magnolia Cemetery:

“In the Arms of Angels” has been endorsed by several
local historians. Richard W. Hatcher III of the Fort Sumter National Monument
calls it “a well-balanced work combining history and beautiful photography of
one of the South’s most historic cities of the dead.”

College of Charleston
history professor Robert P. Stockton praises the book as “the first work to
deal with the art, architecture and landscape design of Magnolia Cemetery in a
comprehensive manner.”

S.C. Lt. Gov.
Glenn McConnell (recently selected to be the College of Charleston’s next
president), who is a Civil War expert, describes “In the Arms of Angels” as “a
landmark book on one of Charleston’s landmarks.”

More information on the book can be found at mybirdseyeviews.blogspot.com,
by calling 843.224.3112, or emailing birdseyeviewspublications@gmail.com.

Harwood, who holds mass communications and journalism degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University
and Northwestern University, has worked and taught at the College of Charleston
since 1992.

The College of Charleston’s School of Humanities and
Social Sciences provided funding
support for his research project.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Nearly two years of work came to fruition today when UPS delivered the first shipment of my new book about Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston. What a relief! And I'm so pleased with how good it looks-- and I feel like it reads great too. The books arrived just in time for my presentation to the Carolina Nature Photographers Association (CNPA), a group I've part of since 2012.

"In the Arms of Angels" is finally in my arms. Now all I have to do is sell them...

I'm not planning to let these boxes gather much dust at my house!

More information (including ordering details) on "In the Arms of Angels: Magnolia Cemetery- Charleston's Treasure of History, Mystery and Artistry" is on my BirdsEyeViews blog. My first book signing is scheduled for Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at Magnolia Cemetery. Come on out to see my book and to visit one of America's most historic and beautiful cemeteries! Last week for an assignment in my Multimedia Reporting class one of my students, Lindsey Maloney, did a nice feature piece about the new book. She titled it, "Patrick Harwood: Getting to Know the Man Behind the Camera." Very mysterious, right? I really like how Lindsey wrote and laid out the article on her blog. Check it out!

Future Nature Lover? Hope So!

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I created this blog for teaching purposes in my College of Charleston communication courses. I try to show my students an array of content and creations that will, hopefully, make them want to keep blogging even after their classes with me and other CofC faculty are over. Enter your email below to receive my postings. Thanks! --Patrick Harwood